Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

This life is not about me. It's about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.